stolen equipment

"Walt Hanks" wrote in message
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"Walt Hanks" wrote in message
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An eBay retailer, DigitalCorp, is claiming to have three available for
immediate purchase. They have a lousy reputation, but you might want
to check them out.

Why on Earth would you recommend he look to a company with a lousy
reputation????
-What...so he can be robbed AGAIN??
Amazing.

A, I didn't "recommend" anything, I just gave him the information.
B, I think he's intelligent enough to make his own decisions and
C, this is one of only three eBay sellers claiming to have the camera in
stock.

Walt

When I show someone the way to a shop, it is an encouragement to do
business there.
-Just seems rather odd to do this in the same breath as noting their bad
reputation.


If I had any personal experience with the shop, I might not have. But, in
my opinion, by telling him that the shop does have a bad reputation "in
the same breath" as telling him that they have the camera he needs, I gave
unbiased information. As I said, I think he is intelligent enough to read
feedback and make up his own mind. I just wanted him to know that the
camera is available, or at least the stores claim it is.

I don't know why you find that so hard to understand, but I guess we'll
just have to agree to disagree on that respect.

I guess so...

"John A. Stovall" wrote in message
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On Mon, 30 May 2005 14:35:15 GMT, "ian lincoln"
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lots of people are losing their jobs to india based call centres.
Personally a more balanced world economy would stop this.

That is a balance world economic, supply and demand.

And just how do you plan to enforce this "balanced world economy" at
the point of a gun just like the commissar enforce their "balanced
economy"?

nope. enforce is unlikely it would be voluntary. strangely though the
national dept of several of these countries added together wouldn't add up
to the trillion that america owns. as the comic emo phillips said "so
america what have you spent all this money on that you owe the world banks"

gwb"oh this stockpile of nuclear weapons, air craft carriers etc"

banker"oh er well, erm ok we will extend the loan no rush ulp"

These americans are building weapons like theres no tomorrow....ulp!"

"ThomasH" wrote in message
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PS: One of the poorest regions on the earth you say, ha!
You might be kind of... not exactly well informed...

This is a completely different story, but let me tell it anyway:

For someone who lives in the Silicon Valley, and cannot see
Americans anymore, this sounds strange. We have been conquered
by Indians. Once they gather hiring positions, they often hire
only other Indians. Entire teams and levels of offices are
occupied by people with names which we cannot spell or pronounce.
They partly ignore each other, and not cooperate regardless
grave problems in the quality of products, because of the ancient
cast system ruling their society. National Geographer has published
recently a few travel and ethnic reports about India. I found
interesting a report of someone who was disfigured by acid by
"good citizens," because he took a bath in a pool reserved for
another better cast. He was expected to clean sewage, period.

Their entire families collect for homes and they buy out
American homes for prices which make you stand speechless.

For example, a larger condo in our fenced compound here was
recently put on a market. I looked at it, I saw no any other
white face, only people running barefoot with Indian dresses,
and a few Asians. I found the kitchen in appalling condition,
bad cut and bad location toward busy front street. No thanks,
good buy.

The agent told us later that the condo received over 30 bids
and went for.... $75 K over asking to an Indian bidder. Poor
people, eh? Well, from the billion to chose from, they have
enough people who can right out outprice you to the ground
in your own country. Unless, someone will finally put a stop
to the flood of visas and to the outsourcing of our jobs...

An American friend of mine was with Intel for almost 20 years,
extremely skilled in physics and mathematics. I knew him from
the many project for our NATO defenses. He used to design the
best specialized semiconductors on the planet and proudly
swing the star spangled banner among pictures of American
veterans in his family. But as his wife was battling cancer
and he was laid out as "unnecessary load" in one of the reorgs
at Intel (paradoxically the department manager was Indian), his
life took a spiral change toward the bottom of the society.
Nowadays he tries to survive on being a valet parking driver
with a hotel, selling part time in electronic store, and
such short jobs.

The poorest areas on the planet are partly *blocks of homes*
right here in America, among us. Do not forget this! I will
never take US citizenship, this society is too sick for my taste.

I think you will find two reasons for supposedly rich asians. 1 the poor
ones are still at home and can't afford it.
2. none are high income but a house that will only comfortably cope with one
family of 4 will fit an extended family of 8. Combine the earning power of
8 people even low paid and they can afford a house between them. The guy
who lives next door to me is a petrol pump attendant. He also rents out one
room to a lodger. He still managed to be the highest bidder and own a shiny
new toyota. Probably find that he scrimped and saved all his life.

"Steven Toney" wrote in message
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My comment was directed to the person who said they would pry his camera
from his cold dead hand, not Tashi

I'm very sorry for Tashi's loss and wish him the best in getting back on
track -- I've been there in having large amount of my "stuff" taken by
thieves - I have no place for them, but I also think a persons life is
worth
a bit more than a few bits of camera equipment


"ThomasH" wrote in message
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Steven Toney wrote:

Is your life worth fighting over just 3 grand of material goods?


Ok people, lets stop right there and note the following:

a) Tashi did not said that equipment was NOT insured.
He just published serial numbers, good idea.
b) He did not said that he fought the thieves and risked
his life for a few $T, as alleged in this article...

Thus maybe, just maybe we should abstain from ad hoc advices
based on assumptions.

We do not know how it was stolen, left unattended or
grabbed from him, or forgotten?

Thomas



While I feel for anyones lose -- I had 17K worth of my stuff stolen
from
my
apartment while away on vacation several years ago -- even 17K is not
worth
dying for no matter how violated theft makes you feel

material things can be replace - life can not -- at least not if you
are
not
a frankestein or is that frankensteen..

BTW -- I had renters insurance that pay for most of the stuff to be
replaced

I'll also look at my coverage rules as I tote around my photo gear on
vacation -- may need another rider if I ever get that much $$ in lenses
and
camera

"Dirty Harry" wrote in message
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"Tashi" wrote in message
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Below the list of stolen equipment:

1. Canon EOS 1 Ds mark 2 body (313466)
2. Canon lens EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM (255194)
3. Canon lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM (92004285)
4. Canon lens EF16-35mm f/2.8L USM (233245)

All was in the Lowe Pro bag Specialist 85 AW.
Two Sandisk Extreme III 2 GB and one Sandisk Ultra II 2 GB was
included.
Also one polarizer by Rodenstock (77mm).
It was stolen in the train.
Ghorakpur Railway Station, Northern India.
I have one witness. Also I have got the bill from the shop for any
case.

My contact:
Marek Arcimowicz
tel. +48 601 782411

Ok I have no where near the gear this guy has, but do most of you
pros
insure your gear? I picked up a 20D and a few lenses so far and
there
is
no
way I could afford to replace them if this happened. I'm thinking I
need
some insurance or something, I get paranoid every time I leave the
house
without my gear, just walking around with 3 grand on your neck seems
like
it
could get you in some trouble (I'm only about 160 lbs but they would
have
to
pry it from my cold, dead hands).


Yea i was kidding on the cold dead thing :-)

"John A. Stovall" wrote in message
"I have been a witness, and these pictures are
my testimony. The events I have recorded should
not be forgotten and must not be repeated."
http://www.jamesnachtwey.com/




Thanks for that link - sobering stuff.

Wasn't it ian lincoln who said...
As we used to say at jessops "buy the new for old policy then when a better
model comes out just drop the thing and then pop along to us with you
insurance vouchers and get a brand spanking new up to date model"

Yep. We have insurance fraud here in the States, as well.


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Wasn't it ian lincoln who said...
I bought a rucksack to stash my entire stock in.

When my kids got old enough where we didn't need it anymore, I
started carrying my kit in an old diaper bag. Lots of room,
added some padding, and it makes a perfect travel bag for a
couple bodies, a couple lenses and some other stuff.

And really, who's going to steal a diaper bag?


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